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Brenton's Septuagint

Proverbs 6:17

The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abomination;   Falsehood;   False Teachers;   Homicide;   Imagination;   Pride;   Sin;   Speaking;   Strife;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Humility-Pride;   Pride;   The Topic Concordance - Abomination;   Discord;   Hate;   Heart;   Lying/lies;   Mischief;   Pride/arrogance;   Violence;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Blood;   Lying;   Murder;   Pride;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eye;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hatred;   Humility;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Lie, Lying;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Death;   Hate, Hatred;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Look;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eye;   Games;   Languages of the Old Testament;   Proverbs, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ethics;   Godliness;   Numbers and Numerals;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for January 21;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,hands that shed innocent blood,
Hebrew Names Version
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood;
King James Version
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
English Standard Version
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
New Century Version
a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that kill innocent people,
New English Translation
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Amplified Bible
A proud look [the attitude that makes one overestimate oneself and discount others], a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood,
New American Standard Bible
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood,
World English Bible
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood;
Geneva Bible (1587)
The hautie eyes, a lying tongue, and the hands that shed innocent blood,
Legacy Standard Bible
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,And hands that shed innocent blood,
Berean Standard Bible
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Contemporary English Version
Those who are too proud or tell lies or murder,
Complete Jewish Bible
a haughty look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Darby Translation
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
Easy-to-Read Version
eyes that show pride, tongues that tell lies, hands that kill innocent people,
George Lamsa Translation
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood.
Good News Translation
Lexham English Bible
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Literal Translation
a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A proude loke, a dyssemblynge tonge, hades that shed innocent bloude,
American Standard Version
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
Bible in Basic English
Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
King James Version (1611)
A proude looke, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A proude loke, a lying tongue, handes that shed innocent blood,
English Revised Version
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hiye iyen, a tunge liere, hondis schedinge out innocent blood,
Update Bible Version
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
Webster's Bible Translation
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood.
New King James Version
A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood,
New Living Translation
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent,
New Life Bible
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that kill those who are without guilt,
New Revised Standard
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Eyes that are lofty, a tongue that is false, and hands shedding innocent blood;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Revised Standard Version
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Young's Literal Translation
Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood,

Contextual Overview

12 A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good. 13 And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers. 14 His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city. 15 Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly; overthrow and irretrievable ruin. 16 For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul. 17 The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just; 18 and a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, —are hateful to God. 19 An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

A proud look: Heb. Haughty eyes, Proverbs 30:13, Psalms 10:4, Psalms 18:27, Psalms 73:6-8, Psalms 101:5, Psalms 131:1, Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 3:9, Isaiah 3:16, 1 Peter 5:5

lying: Proverbs 12:22, Proverbs 14:5, Proverbs 26:28, Psalms 5:6, Psalms 120:2, Psalms 120:3, Hosea 4:1, Hosea 4:2, John 8:44, Revelation 22:15

and hands: Proverbs 1:11, Deuteronomy 27:25, 2 Kings 24:4, Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:3-6

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:20 - and let Deuteronomy 19:10 - General Psalms 62:4 - delight Psalms 109:2 - with Psalms 140:11 - an evil speaker Proverbs 13:5 - righteous Proverbs 16:5 - that Proverbs 21:4 - An high look Proverbs 21:24 - haughty Isaiah 2:12 - upon Isaiah 59:7 - feet Isaiah 65:5 - These Jeremiah 22:3 - neither Jeremiah 26:15 - ye shall Jeremiah 43:2 - all the Ephesians 4:25 - putting 2 Timothy 3:2 - proud James 4:6 - God

Cross-References

Genesis 2:7
And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.
Genesis 6:3
that the sons of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.
Genesis 6:4
And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men for ever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:7
then God laid it to heart that he had made man upon the earth, and he pondered it deeply.
Genesis 6:12
But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.
Genesis 6:13
And the Lord God saw the earth, and it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.
Genesis 6:14
And the Lord God said to Noe, A period of all men is come before me; because the earth has been filled with iniquity by them, and, behold, I destroy them and the earth.
Genesis 6:20
And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.
Genesis 6:21
Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to thee, male and female to be fed with thee.
Genesis 6:22
And thou shalt take to thyself of all kinds of food which ye eat, and thou shalt gather them to thyself, and it shall be for thee and them to eat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A proud look,.... Or, "eyes elated" d; scorning to look down upon others; or looking upon them with disdain; or reckoning them as unworthy to be looked upon, having an high opinion of their own worth and merit. Pride is the first of the hateful things mentioned; it being the first sin committed, as is probable, the sin of the angels, and of the first man; and is a predominant evil in human nature, and is directly opposite to God and to his nature, and against which he sets himself; for "he resisteth the proud", James 4:6; the pride of the heart shows itself in the eyes, or by the looks of a man; Gersom says, the phrase denotes impudence and haughtiness;

a lying tongue; that is the second of the hateful things; a tongue speaking falsehood, knowingly and willingly, with an intention to deceive others; to hurt the character of a neighbour, or to flatter a friend, is a most detestable evil; it ought to be so to men, it must be so to God, who is a God of truth: nor is there anything in which a man more resembles the devil, who is the father of lies;

and hands that shed innocent blood; human blood; and that of persons who have not been guilty of any capital sin, for which they ought to die by the laws of God or men, and yet shed or poured out as common water; such hands must be defiled, and such men must be hateful to God, they destroying his image, and being like to the devil, who was a murderer from the beginning. These "three" sins are plainly to be seen in the son of Belial, antichrist, who exalts himself above all that is called God, the kings and princes of the earth; he and his followers speak lies in hypocrisy; and is the whore that is drunk with the blood of the saints, 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

d עינים רמות "oculi clati", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A new section, but not a new subject. The closing words, “he that soweth discord” (Proverbs 6:19, compare Proverbs 6:14), lead us to identify the sketch as taken from the same character. With the recognized Hebrew form of climax (see Proverbs 30:15, Proverbs 30:18, Proverbs 30:24; Amos 1:1-15; Amos 2:0; Job 5:19), the teacher here enumerates six qualities as detestable, and the seventh as worse than all (seven represents completeness), but all the seven in this instance belong to one man, the man of Belial Proverbs 6:12.


 
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